JOINT-STATE AND ENERGY DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS INSPECT EMMIRIAN NUCLEAR PLANT
The Rabiyadin One Nuclear Plant experienced a near-meltdown on Wednesday, March 24th
RABIYADIN - The State Department has dispatched an envoy of scientists and nuclear physicists in a joint mission with the Energy Department to the Rabiyadin One Nuclear Plant in Emmiria, which experienced a near-meltdown on Wednesday, March 24th. While Emmirian officials maintained that the malfunction was under control and was being closely monitored, the Zamastanian government accepted a request by the Emmirian request to inspect the site.
The malfunction was reportedly caused, according to Emmirian officials, by a control valve that temporarily failed to turn, causing an electrical shortage that impacted the basements of the power plant's turbine buildings and disabled the emergency diesel generators. The nuclear facility's workers then notified authorities of a "first-level emergency". The switching stations that provided power from the three backup generators located higher on the hillside failed when the building that housed them did not receive the warnings due to the power outage. All AC power was lost to units 1–4. Steam-driven pumps provided cooling water to reactors 2 and 3 and prevented their fuel rods from overheating, as the rods continued to generate decay heat after fission had ceased. Eventually these pumps stopped working, and the reactors began to overheat.
However, authorities now say that water cooling systems were able to stave off the overheating reactors, and the pumps are now working properly. The entire incident took place over a 4 minute span, but the incident is worrisome. The nuclear facility is the oldest in the country, constructed in the late 1960s, as were most of the nation's 8 nuclear plants and subsequent 36 reactors. Authorities maintain that the situation is under control and that the building continues to be closely monitored.
Zamastanian contractors helped construct the facility, located in southeast Zahzed province, in the 1960s although the neutral state of Emmiria at the time meant that Beleroskovian scientists were also contracted in the construction. The facility shares more schemetic design to Beleroskovian facilities, which caused the Beleroskov government to announce inspections of every single nuclear power plant and fission reactor in the country.
While the Emmirian government maintained that the malfunction was taken care of and continues to be monitored, the Zamastanian delegation stated publically that the cause for alarm might have been much higher than initially reported. Darren Machavers, the chief of the Energy Department's delegation, stated that the time frame until a meltdown would have occured was "within moments, possibly seconds".
"The facility was alarmingly close to a complete meltdown," Machavers said, "and the Rabiyadin facility needs to overgo an entirely thurough inspection to ensure safety. Had it not been for a quick response by the employees onsite, there would have been a catastrophy."
De Yuan sanctions Zamastanian and Caspiaan officials over Pangchu rebuke
The People's Republic of Yuan has announced sanctions against two Zamastanian officials, a Caspiaan lawmaker and a Caspiaan parliamentary subcommittee, in response to “coordinated action” taken by the two countries last week over Shanghan’s treatment of its Muslim Pangchu minority and ongoing hacking and intervention campaigns in the Pangchu national elections
Shanghan has been pushing back against sanctions imposed by WEDA and CAMDA nations for what they say are rights violations against minorities and the neighboring country of Pangchu.
In a statement on Saturday, Yuan's foreign ministry said it would take measures against the chair and vice-chair of the Zamastanian government’s Advisory Commission on International Religious Freedom (ZCIRF), Matt Reiner and Valorie Besaja.
It also sanctioned Caspiaan parliament member Blore Fuees, the Conservative Party’s foreign affairs critic and vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE), as well as the FAAE’s Subcommittee on International Human Rights.
That subcommittee has eight members and this month presented a report concluding that atrocities had been committed in the south eastern provinces that constitute crimes against humanity and genocide, while the intrusion of interverence in Pangchu's democratic elections is also alarming.
Congresswoman Sabine Armitage Considering Running For President for a Second Time
Congresswoman Sabine Armitage (BCP, NI) during a hearing over the ongoing West Chanchajillan airstrikes on March 24th, 2021
Congresswoman Sabine Armitage stated in an interview that she is considering a second bid for President of Zamastan in the 2022 elections. Armitage is a Zamastanian politician serving as the junior congresswoman from Northern Isle Province's 7th district, a seat she was elected to in 2016. She is a member of the Blue Conservative Party, and was a mainline a candidate for President of Zamastan in the 2020 Zamastan presidential election, seeking to replace Foley Sakzi who was not seeking a second term reelection. She lost the race to former-Governor of Alutia Atticus Moreau, but came in second even beating out well established candidates like Cain Blackwater, Euan Gunn, and Adam Wolffe.
Armitage drew national recognition when she won the Blue Conservative Party's primary election for the Northern Isle's 7th congressional district on June 4th, 2016. She defeated BCP Caucus Chair Randen Abotsford, a 7-term incumbent, in what was widely seen as the biggest upset victory in the 2016 election primaries. She went on to win the district's seat in the 2016 general election. Armitage majored in international relations and economics at the University of Tofino, graduating cum laude in 2010. She was previously an activist and worked part-time as a waitress, bartender, and fast-food employee before running for Congress in 2016. She is one of only 13 congresswomen among the 202 BCP lawmakers currently in the Congress and one of 54 women among 421 lawmakers in Congressional Hall as a whole.
Armitage first announced her candidacy for the Conservative Party nomination for President on January 1st, 2020, stating her support for Sakzi as a one-term President and declaring that she believed Bishop's position as a conservative woman in the Presidency was a bad example; "it should be reinstated with a fresh face." On June 15th, 2020, President Sakzi announced he would not seek reelection, as he believed his services would best be served in a civilian capacity. This meant no matter what, Zamastan would elect a new President. Armitage effectively became the only Conservative candidate running, with Sakzi endorsing her campaign.
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